This is the bizarre moment a horse was captured on CCTV wandering into a police station.

The brown and white stallion strolled through two sets of automatic doors at Cheshire Police Headquarters in the early hours on Monday.

The force yesterday released CCTV footage of the moment a civilian police worker challenged the animal as it came into the reception area.

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The stallion trotted through automatic doors at Chesire Police headquarters in the early hours on Monday

A civilian police worker attempted to challenge the animal as it entered reception area to no avail

Police later discovered the horse had broken loose from a field near the police headquarters in Winsford, Cheshire, and trotted into the station.

A police spokesperson said: 'The constabulary encourages contact from a wide variety of different communities and an interesting visitor recently stepped through the doors of its HQ from a very rural community.